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Crawford died on April 6, 1935. Upon his death, he left his estate to his widow and his three-year-old daughter, valued at more than US$ 100 million (UK£75 million). His widow, who remarried in 1957 to
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were discovered on Eben's farm in 1901. He later formed the Ohio Fuel Supply
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